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Men duped by Filipino phone line Callers believed they were talking to women from the Philippines Nottingham magistrates heard trading standards officers discovered the line was run from a base in Sherwood. Company owner Andrew Vanderahe, 41, from Cambridge, was fined for breaching the Trade Descriptions Act. We received complaints from members of the public who suspected that it was not a genuine introduction Caraline Ryan, trading standards manager They launched a 19-month investigation into the base in Hucknall Road that cost £17,000. Vanderahe, from Sawston, who ran Jabba Communications, admitted making false statements about the service and selling customers restricted porn videos without a licence. He was fined £650 and ordered to pay costs of £1,000. Nottingham City trading standards service manager Caraline Ryan welcomed the conviction. She said after the case: "Sex chat lines are legal if they stick to certain rules. "But we received complaints from members of the public who suspected that it was not a genuine introduction. It was a scam. "We investigated and spoke to former employees who also thought it was wrong that they should be pretending to men who would join the agency and pay a lot of money to pay premium rates to talk to them."
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